Someone can help me, how i use the utility "CSNBOWH"?
I have program in COBOL execute "call".
How I must format the fields below?
CALL CSNBOWH USING RETURN-CODE-O
REASON-CODE-O
EXIT-DATA-LENGTH-IO
EXIT-DATA-IO
RULE-ARRAY-COUNT-I
RULE-ARRAY-I
TEXT-LENGTH-I
TEXT-I
CHAINING-VECTOR-LENGTH-I
CHAINING-VECTOR-IO
HASH-LENGTH-I
HASH-IO.
The definition of the fields below is correct?
*********DYNAMIC PROGRAMS*************************
01 DYNAMIC-SUBPROGRAM.
03 CSNBOWH PIC X(08) VALUE 'CSNBOWH '.

• DEFINE SAPI INPUT/OUTPUT PARAMETERS

01 SAPI-REC.
05 RETURN-CODE-O PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 REASON-CODE-O PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 EXIT-DATA-LENGTH-IO PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 EXIT-DATA-IO PIC X(04).
05 RULE-ARRAY-COUNT-I PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 RULE-ARRAY-I PIC X(08).
05 TEXT-LENGTH-I PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 TEXT-I PIC X(64).
05 CHAINING-VECTOR-LENGTH-I PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 CHAINING-VECTOR-IO PIC X(128).
05 HASH-LENGTH-I PIC 9(08) COMP.
05 HASH-IO PIC X(128).
Best Regards.

Hi Jose,

That looks more or less correct.

I would however suggest using COMP-5 (native binary) for the fullword (integer) parameters as they're not subject to truncation to the number of decimal digits given in the PIC specification.

Bernie

Could you make the call to CSNBOWH correctly?
If so, how did you do it? can you share the code and the definition of the variables please.

Not clear what you're looking for, a sample call and parameter definitions were provided by the original poster. The official documentation of the call is here:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.csfb400/kgn.htm